For a long
time scientists have struggled on how the Egyptians built the pyramids, even
with massive slave labor, moving such large and heavy stones, fitting them
together and finish the construction on a relative short time was a big
problem. It was even demonstrated that with modern machinery it would still be
a huge engineering problem.
A lot of
theories from mystical super powers, advanced technology and the intervention
of advanced alien civilizations, all of this theories are very popular, but now
a study from the University of Indiana, by the physicist Joseph West and some
colleagues came with a much simple solution for this mind struggling millennia-old
problem on how they moved such heavy stones. And it is very simple. They rolled
them.
This new
theory suggests that by rolling instead of dragging the stones considerably
reduces the ground pressure and at the same time allows the blocks of stone to
be moved with much less effort, making it very much plausible explanation.
Here is the
link of the paper that was published: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.3603v1.pdf
There is a
problem in this theory, it is a good theory and a good way of how the Pyramids “should
have” been built, the paper doesn’t say that they built them that way, but that
they should have.
The mystery
of the pyramids have already been solved at this same year (2014), there is
even artwork found within the tomb of Djehutihotep, which was discovered in the
Victorian Era, that shows how they moved them. They simply poured water in the
sand.
As a UvA
press release explains:
“The
physicists placed a laboratory version of the Egyptian sledge in a tray of
sand. They determined both the required pulling force and the stiffness of the
sand as a function of the quantity of water in the sand. To determine the
stiffness they used a rheometer, which shows how much force is needed to deform
a certain volume of sand.
Experiments
revealed that the required pulling force decreased proportional to the stiffness
of the sand...A sledge glides far more easily over firm desert sand simply
because the sand does not pile up in front of the sledge as it does in the case
of dry sand.”
So the
mystery of the pyramids is solved, at least how they were built. But a lot of
other mysteries about Egypt still exist and still remain unexplained. Per
example:
Why were
the pyramids built at all?
Most scientists say they were simply tombs, burial places, for Egyptian pharaohs or kings, making them “immortal” (and in fact, most of the 138 pyramids discovered in Egypt as of 2008, where in fact just tombs) but some of the pyramids have complex inner structures to be simple tombs.
How old is the Sphinx?
The orthodox view put the Sphinx with an age of around 4,500 years old (around 2,500BC) however recent scientific studies show that it may be much, pretty much older.
Let’s hope that these, and other mysteries
finally get broken.
Most scientists say they were simply tombs, burial places, for Egyptian pharaohs or kings, making them “immortal” (and in fact, most of the 138 pyramids discovered in Egypt as of 2008, where in fact just tombs) but some of the pyramids have complex inner structures to be simple tombs.
How old is the Sphinx?
The orthodox view put the Sphinx with an age of around 4,500 years old (around 2,500BC) however recent scientific studies show that it may be much, pretty much older.
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